==I've been under the impression that Texas's k-12 education is much better than California's and on par with New York and Illinois.== Your own source disagree

==I've been under the impression that Texas's k-12 education is much better than California's and on par with New York and Illinois.== Your own source disagrees: 9. New York 16. Illinois 35. California 40. Texas ==Texas has something crazy like 1/5th of all k-12 students in the country.== It's more like 1/10th. Texas has 5.4 million in public k-12 [1] and there are 50.7 million in the US public k-12 [2]. ==That number has shot up faster than any other state, so I think it's reasonable if they're having some "growing pains" so to speak.== A good way to get past those growing pains would be to invest in education. Again, from your source on Texas "Public school spending: $8,485 per pupil (4th lowest)". [1] https://tea.texas.gov/Reports_and_Data/School_Performance/Accountability_Research/Enrollment_Trends/?LangType=1033 https://tea.texas.gov/Reports_and_Data/School_Performance/Ac... [2] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372